Lloyd's Maritime Law Newsletter

The plaintiffs were consignees of machinery on board the vessel Antares . The machinery was carried under a bill of lading issued at Antwerp and on a form of the Mediterranean Shipping Company, who were the time charterers of the vessel. The voyage..

By contract dated 20 May 1977 IOC agreed to sell to M. 7,000 metric tons of edible salt at a price of S$22 per metric ton c. & f. Chittagong/Chalna. M. arranged finance for the purchase through A. by means of A. opening two transferable letters..

The plaintiffs sent a load of wire from Antwerp, Belgium to its customer, Digital Components Ltd. of Bedford, Nova Scotia. The terms of the sale were cash against documents. The wire was duly loaded on board the defendants’ vessel and the..

On 23 June 1983 B contracted to purchase from P, a company in Brazil, 50 metric tons of grade A tin ingots in bundles at a price of $13,140 per metric ton. The terms were f.o.b. vessel at Santos, Brazil for shipment to New York in January 1984,..

In the afternoon of 3 July 1984 a group of vessels moored in San Francisco Bay south of the Richmond_San Rafael Bridge dragged anchor and began to drift towards the bridge. The group included an oil drilling rig which was incapable of passing..

The parties were respectively buyers and sellers of a ship under a contract dated 14 December 1984 incorporating the standard terms of the Norwegian sale form as amended by their special bargain. The contract incorporated an arbitration clause in..